The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, ...

On Nov. 14, 2024, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences marked the successful ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...

Taking off from Launch Site One in West Texas, the mission will simulate the moon ... from Russian space agency Roscosmos, with an unknown payload scheduled to launch using a Soyuz rocket ...

Advertisement In 1929, the Soviet Union expelled communist ... the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA contracts awarded to SpaceX through 2030 alone are worth nearly US$5 billion and include research and development for the Artemis mission to return astronauts to the Moon. Over the past ...

Fiery explosions on the ground or in the air aren't unheard of over the past several years. Rocket tests in Scotland, China and Japan have all ended in accidents. In April 2023, one of SpaceX's ...

The south pole of the moon is particularly hot property ... into its component elements for respiration or rocket fuel. The United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, and China have ...

The Egyptian satellite lab is the latest advancement in China’s secretive overseas space program. Beijing is building space ...